English

Introduction

Since our founding in 1972 by Dr. Kaichi Terauchi, Terauchi Neuropsychiatry Clinic has been providing individuals and families with psychiatric and mental health services in Ashiya. On April 1st, 2010, Dr. Michihiro Takahashi joined our clinic and the name was changed to Terauchi-Takahashi Psychiatric Clinic. On October 1st in 2013, Dr. Takahashi became the director and the name was changed to Takahashi Psychiatric Clinic.

We help patients through difficult periods in their lives when it seems that life has become unmanageable due to psychiatric illness.

Psychiatric services are available in English mainly by Dr. Takahashi.

Our Physicians

Michihiro Takahashi, M.D., Ph.D

Dr. Takahashi worked as Assistant Professor, the Director of the psychiatric ward at Yamagata University Hospital. He was involved in patient care, education of medical school students, and research activities in psychopharmacology. He was a postdoctoral associate at Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, where he was involved in research on antidepressants. He worked at a global pharmaceutical company, and has helped to successfully deliver innovative medicines to psychiatric patients in Japan.

MEDICAL CERTIFICATION

TRAINING

Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, 1996-1998

INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY MEMBERSHIP

Society for Neuroscience, Washington, DC, U.S.

Kaichi Terauchi, M.D., Ph.D.

Dr. Terauchi worked as the director of Omura Hospital (Psychiatric Hospital, Miki City). He founded Terauchi Neuropsychiatric Clinic in 1972, and has been involved in various activities related to mental health services in Ashiya. He is a committee member of Ashiya Education Committee for the medical examination of children at school age, Sandaya Chiryo Kyoikuin (a school for retarded children), Ashiya Tokubetsu Shien Gakko (A Special Education School to help children with developmental disorders), and the chair person of the Ashiya Mental Support Center.